{"id":324,"date":"2008-04-18T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T23:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/this-weeks-ny-times-fiction-bestseller-list\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T00:01:02","slug":"this-weeks-ny-times-fiction-bestseller-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/18\/this-weeks-ny-times-fiction-bestseller-list\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s NY Times Fiction Bestseller List"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

April 27, 2008<\/p>\n

Hardcover Fiction<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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This
\nWeek<\/font><\/td>\n		<\/td>\nLast
\nWeek<\/font><\/td>\n		Weeks
\nOn List<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nWHERE ARE YOU NOW?<\/a><\/span>, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for the truth about her brother, who is alive but has disappeared.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\nUNACCUSTOMED EARTH<\/a><\/span>, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.) Stories about the anxiety and transformation experienced by Bengali parents and their American children.<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nCERTAIN GIRLS<\/a><\/span>, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.) A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat autobiographical novel her mother wrote years earlier.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\nBELONG TO ME<\/a><\/span>, by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.) When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes enmeshed in complications and secrets.<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\n* SMALL FAVOR<\/a><\/span>, by Jim Butcher. (Roc, $23.95.) Book 10 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago.<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nTHE APPEAL<\/a><\/span>, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste.<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/span><\/td>\nCOMPULSION<\/a><\/span>, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.) Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates.<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/span><\/td>\nCHANGE OF HEART<\/a><\/span>, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) A prisoner on death row begins performing miracles.<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/span><\/td>\nBULLS ISLAND<\/a><\/span>, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow, $24.95.) An investment banker returns to the South Carolina island home she had left 20 years before.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/span><\/td>\nA THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS<\/a><\/span>, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/span><\/td>\n* REMEMBER ME?<\/a><\/span>, by Sophie Kinsella. (Dial, $25.) After an auto accident, a London woman loses her memory.<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/span><\/td>\nZAPPED<\/a><\/span>, by Carol Higgins Clark. (Scribner, $24.) The adventures of several New Yorkers, including the P.I. Regan Reilly, on the night of the 2003 blackout.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/span><\/td>\n7TH HEAVEN<\/a><\/span>, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women\u2019s Murder Club hunt for an arsonist.<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/span><\/td>\nDEAD HEAT<\/a><\/span>, by Joel C. Rosenberg. (Tyndale, $24.99.) With the world on the brink of war, terrorists plot to assassinate a candidate in a closely fought presidential election.<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/span><\/td>\nTHE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO<\/a><\/span>, by Junot D\u00edaz. (Riverhead, $24.95.) A Dominican-American in New Jersey struggles to escape a family curse.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/span><\/td>\n*\u00a0WINTER STUDY<\/a><\/span>, by Nevada Barr. (Putnam, $24.95.) The national park ranger Anna Pigeon returns to an island park in Lake Superior, where a monstrous wolf is at large.<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Also Selling<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/span><\/td>\nA PRISONER OF BIRTH, by Jeffrey Archer (St. Martin’s)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/span><\/td>\nWORLD WITHOUT END<\/a><\/span>, by Ken Follett (Dutton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/span><\/td>\nGUILTY<\/span>, by Karen Robards (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/span><\/td>\nHOLLYWOOD CROWS<\/a><\/span>, by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/span><\/td>\nLUSH LIFE<\/a><\/span>, by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/span><\/td>\nPLEASURE<\/a><\/span>, by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/span><\/td>\nTHE THIRD ANGEL<\/a><\/span>, by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/span><\/td>\nSEPULCHRE<\/a><\/span>, by Kate Mosse (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/span><\/td>\nTHE DARK TIDE<\/a><\/span>, by Andrew Gross (Morrow)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/span><\/td>\nTEN-YEAR NAP<\/span>, by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/span><\/td>\nLOST SOULS<\/a><\/span>, by Lisa Jackson (Kensington)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/span><\/td>\nHONOR THYSELF<\/a><\/span>, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/span><\/td>\nWRATH OF A MAD GOD<\/a><\/span>, by Raymond E. Feist (Eos\/HarperCollins)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/span><\/td>\nPEOPLE OF THE BOOK<\/a><\/span>, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/span><\/td>\nDUMA KEY<\/a><\/span>, by Stephen King (Scribner)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/span><\/td>\nTHE WINDING WAYS QUILT<\/a><\/span>, by Jennifer Chiaverini (Simon & Schuster)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/span><\/td>\nBUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDENS<\/a><\/span>, by Anne Perry (Ballantine)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/span><\/td>\nBLACK WIDOW<\/a><\/span>, by Randy Wayne White (Putnam)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/span><\/td>\nCHRIST THE LORD: THE ROAD TO CANA<\/a><\/span>, by Anne Rice (Knopf)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

[ click to view list at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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